Cradle Mountain & Kath and Kim, Tasmania

Sunday the first of April.... We woke quite late yesterday morning, about a quarter to 9 but it took me a minute to realize we had an extra hour up our sleeve.
Daylight saving ended on the east coast so it was really a quarter to 8 ... Early birds for a Sunday morning. 
We packed up our hotel room - destination - Cradle Mountain.
So back on that winding road up and out and down and around hillsides we went.

It dawned on me while we were driving why people over here look at us like we have two heads when we tell them we drive 1400 kilometers to Exmouth in about 15 hours. Over here 1400 kilometers would take 3 days with all of these twists and turns. Our long straight flat roads make our journeys so much faster. We drove high into the mountains stopping at a lookout along the way...

Higher than the clouds

We also visited Queenstown, a fairly big copper mining town. A week earlier and we would have seen the town covered in snow..

The main drag of Queenstown, Tasmania

I also had to take a picture of this house, painted in Collingwood Colours with a Collingwood  dressed statue on the front doorstep. We were scared to knock - I could only imagine what was living
inside ;-)...

A magpie infested house, Queens town

We then continued on to Cradle Mountain, and who do you think we bumped into up there... Kath and Kim aka Lloyd and Gazza, our old mates from the caravan park in Hobart.  I did say I had a feeling we'd bump into them again. Again, they were a crack up and were happy to see us...

Jack, Richard, Lloyd & Gazza

We then took a bus trip up to cradle mountain where the kids got excited about seeing dots of snow on the mountain...

Cradle Mountain

Richard and the kids at Cradle Mountain

We took one of the many walking paths which meandered through the National Park seeing a wombat and her baby, our first in the wild...

Wombat and her baby

The whole area caters really well to walkers with overnight, day, half day and short walks.

We took a short walk before being picked up by a shuttle  bus and taken back down the mountain.

Richard waiting for us slow coaches on the walking path

Nina & Harry holding hands on the walking path - cute!!

One of the many walking paths at Cradle Mountain

On the way back to Burnie we stopped for lunch in a town called Waratah, one of the tidiest and neatest towns I have ever been to.
It looked like the entire town had freshly mowed lawn and right in the middle of town was an amazing waterfall....

The tidy town of Waratah, with a waterfall in the middle of town

Another half an hour drive and we were back at the caravan park.

Richard set about fixing the annex after Friday's storm while I put some washing on and mopped up the mud in the caravan which had been setting all weekend after we fled in the storm a few days earlier.

All good - we decided to drop in unannounced on Kath and Kim aka Lloyd & Gazza who were in a caravan park up the road.
After a drink with them, I now have an award winning sitcom series written, they are funny guys.

It was an early dinner and bed before we head further west along the north coast.